So it's possible, then? I don't think there is already a need to put up a satellite cluster around it at the moment. Maybe a system of 3 to 9 high intensity telescope based on earth is enough for the mean time. Since there there is no high demand for real-time tracking yet. What we need at the moment is to capture the surface terrain in detail and it will be done by acquiring a snapshot of it at time-interval as it rotates on its axis. We can start with 3 telescopes aiming at 90°, 45° and 180° angle simultaneously with a few miles range each. Granting Mars is a perfect sphere then the 1st and 3rd telescope and its range is equal to 1/3 of the total range of the 3 telescopes then it will have to shoot at 1/3 of the interval of the 2nd telescope. with this we can have an almost perfect synchronized 2D image that can be rendered flat just like a typical paper map.
Commercial application is for geodetic (if not geographical) survey. What do you think? On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Rossko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Someday man will inhabit planet Mars. So I am thinking GPS applications > > development for Martian use. Is this already available in Google? > > First you'll have to establish a GPS satellite cloud around > Mars ... ;) > > I don't think there's anything in Google's Terms to stop you doing > that, though. > > cheers, Ross K > > > > -- JHOURLAD ESTRELLA http://www.hiboohi.com http://blog.hiboohi.com Email:[email protected] <email%[email protected]> Y!M: [email protected] Phone: +966 560 764 350 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
